Journeyman

In the Bible the book of Psalms is a collection of poetry. Originally written in Hebrew, our translation into English misses out some of the beauty and technical skill of the original compositions.
Philip Hewer recently wrote about the challenges of translating Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, and in its original form, a [...]

This trip is almost over. Tomorrow will involve one more hot day sat in a meeting room before getting on an air-conditioned plane in the evening to start the flight home. I’ve learnt a lot here, but two things are going to stick in my head above all else.
1 – Asking the wrong questions.
On Sunday [...]

Research seems to indicate that if you read your Bible outside of a church service then you’re a pretty rare breed. Only one in seven of us sat in church on a Sunday bother to read the Bible during the week.
2011 is the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible and Bible Fresh is celebrating [...]

I didn’t think that I was going to have anything else worth saying this week. I was right, but Bishop Wright makes a good case for the resurrection in response to an article by Adam Rutherford in this week’s Guardian. Adam appears to be taking part in an Alpha course and he discusses his views [...]

I find cartography facinating. There’s a map shop on one of the bridges in Bath that I could spend hours in. It’s stacked with maps from all over the world, many hand drawn, showing what the world used to look like from above – or at least what we thought it looks like.
Did you know [...]

HT: Marko

The Temptation of Jesus

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become [...]

“From Eden to Eternity” begins on Monday at St James the Less in Westminster. Kent Anderson who has been managing arrangements went up to visit Saltmine and see how preparations are going for the tour. He said,
I was blown away by how powerful it is! They capture the glory, struggle and passion of the Bible [...]

I now have Google News alerts coming to my inbox for terms like ‘Bible Translation’ and ‘Wycliffe’. Most of the time I skim the news and think nothing more about it – there’s only so much space in my head and I’m not about to start investigating the complexities of Greek or Hebrew, at least [...]